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E. M. TURNER. ELBVATBD RAILWAY.

No. 488,154. Patented Dec. 13,- 1892.

UNTTn STATES .aTsNT OFFICE.

EPHRAIM M. TURNER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO R. E. MADDOX, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

E LEVATED RAILWAY.

l SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,154, dated December 13, 1892.

Application filed October l2, 1891. Serial No. 408,549. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.- A secure said cap-plate to said supporting posts Beit known thatLEPHRArMM. TURNER, of or columns by bolts or rivets which -are 5o the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, adapted to pass through the perforated ears have invented certain new and useful Im- 4L of the cap-plates and also through the sup- 5 provements in Elevated Railways, of which porting-posts. It may be noted in this conthe following is a full, clear, and exact deneet-ion that the supporting post or column 1 scription, reference being had to the accomis provided with two external Webs 5 and an 55 panying drawings, forming a part hereof. intermediate web 6, and between the Webs 5 My invention relates to improvements in and 6 the perforated ears 4 of the cap-plate Io tricycle electric elevated railways; audit conare located and secured to the supporting sists in the novel arrangement and combinaposts or columns, as hereinbefore stated. tion of parts, as will be more fully hereinaf- Having brieiiy described the supporting 6o ter described, and designated in the claims. posts or columns and the cap-plates which I In the drawings, Figure lis a perspective secure to the tops of the same, I will now I5 view ofthe superstructure for the cars or veproceed to describe the construction which exhicles with parts broken away. Fig. 2 is a tends from post to post, and also the remainvertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a side ing parts of the superstructure which are se- 65 elevation of one span of the superstructure, cured to said posts, still referring to Figs. 1 showing an electric-motor car mounted thereand 2 for illustration. Secured to the eXterzo on. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a capnal webs of the supporting posts or columns plate which is adapted to fit to the top of the in any suitable and mechanical manner are supporting posts or columns which I employ braces 7, for the purpose more fully herein- 7o in carrying out my invention. Fig. 5 is a after described. Located between thebraces perspective view of the upper portion of one or supporting-plates 7 and mounted above 25 of the supporting posts or columns. Fig. 6 is each and every supporting post or column 1 a perspective view of a modified cap-plateV and resting on the cap-plates 2 are substanwhich I may employ. tially-V-shaped supports and braces 8 of the 75 Referring to the drawings, and especially construction as illustrated in Figs. l, 2, and to Fig. l, wherein a perspective View of the 7. Said V-shaped braces or supports 8 are se- 3o superstructure is illustrated, 1 indicates a cured in any suitable and mechanical mansupporting post or column, which is rolled in ner to the cap-plates 2. I also employ one or any suitable manner out of a single piece of a series of said V-shaped supports 8 in the 8o steel, metal, or any other suitable and apconstruction of the superstructure between propriate material. In the construction of the supporting posts or columns 1 in a man- 35 the superstructure I locate these posts or colner as will be more specifically hereinafter umns preferably about forty feet apart; but described.

I wish to state that I do not coniine myself to 9 indicates arches, the ends of which rest 85 any definite distance, as I may find that said on the cap-plates 2, and are secured to the Y distance is too close or too far apart, and I supporting-plates 7, as indicated in Figs 1 4o may desire to change the same so as to elect and 3. Said arches 9 extend from post to a solid and substantial superstructure adaptpost, as illustrated in Fig. 3. r ed to carry moving vehicles. In order to 10 indicates supports which are located in 9o make the supporting posts or columns 1 suitthe construction of the superstructure beable for the support of the remaining parts tween the supporting posts or columns 1, and

45 of the superstructure, I find it necessary to located in said supports lO are the V-'shaped secure to the top of said posts cap-plates 2, as supports and braces 8, as hereinbefore deillustrated in Fig. 4, or a lnodiiied form of a scribed. The location of the supports 10 are 95 lcap-plate 3, as illustrated in Fig. 6, and then thoroughly illustrated in Fig. 3.

The arches 9 are riveted or bolted or secured in any suitable manner to the guiderails 11-that is, the arches are secured in said manner in the region of their highest curved or arched portion, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The guide-rails l1 are of the construction as illustrated in Figs 1 and 2-that is, they are provided with a flange or web portion 12 and a similar portion 13, extentiing at an obtuse angle to the web portion 12, and said portion 13 being provided with a head 111. The web or flange portion 12 is in-` terposed between the upper'ends of the supporting-plates 7 and the Vshaped braces and supports 8 and secured therein by means of bolts or rivets or in any other suitable and mechanical manner, as illustrated lin Fig. 1. It may be noted in this connection t-hat the upper ends of the supports 10 and also the intermediate Vshaped braces and supports 8 are secured to the web or ange 12 of said guide-rails l1. The arches 9 are also secured l"to the supports 10 by means of bolts or rivets or any other suitable manner, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

Secured on the inside of the supports 10 are bracketsor braces 15, as illustrated in Fig. 1, which are adapted to assist in supporting the arches 9.

16 indicates the lower or drive-wheel rail, which is of the ordinary construction,as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. Said rail 16 is located in the Vshaped supports and braces 8 and is supported or rests directly on the same, and is secured in said location in any suitable and mechanical manner. Said rail 16 is supported between the posts or columns 1 by means of the Vshaped supports and the supports 10, it being noted in this connection that said supports, or more specifically the upper ends of the same, are secured to the flange or web 12 of the guide-rails 11. The guiderails 11 lie opposite to each other in approxi` mately the same horizontal plane, and the center or drive-wheel' rail 16 is located below the guide-rails 11 in a plane parallel to that in which the guide-rails are located, but in a different vertical plane.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, is-

1. The herein-described superstructure for elevated electric railways, having rolled supporting posts or columns, cap-plates mounted on or secured to the same,V-shaped supports or braces 8, mounted upon said cap-plates, a main rail located Within said Vshaped supports and mounted thereon, guide-rails having a head extending at an obtuse angle to the web thereof, secured to said supports, plates, such as 7, secured to vsaid guide-rails and `support-ing posts or columns, supports 10 and 8, secured intermediately of the supporting-columns to the guide-rails and suspending therefrom, and arches passing from post to post and secured to said plates '7, supports 10, and guide-rails, substantially as set forth.

2. A three-rail elevated superstructure comprising supporting posts or columns 1, capplates 2, mounted on or secured to the same, Vshaped supports or braces 8, mounted upon said vcap-plates, a main rail 16, located within said Vshaped supports and mounted thereon, guide-rails 11, having heads 14, extending at an obtuse angle to the webs 12 thereof, secured to said supports, plates, such as 7, secured to said guide-rails and supporting posts or columns, supports 10 and 8, secured intermediately of the supporting-columns to the guiderails and suspending therefrom for supporting the main rail 16, and arches 9, spanning said posts, and the ends whereof being sup'- ported upon the cap-plates 2 and secured Ito said plates '7, supports 10, and guide-rails, substantially as set forth. Y

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EPHRA'iM M. TURNER. l Witnesses:

BENJ. J. KLENE, J No. C. HIGDoN. 

